Pedestrians Beware: Mercedes Self Driving Cars Will Save The Occupants Before It Considers You

Save the owner or save the others? Mercedes says the answer to the million-dollar autonomous question is quite simple.

Future autonomous Mercedes vehicles will prioritise saving their own occupants in no-win traffic situations, its safety executives have told Auto Express.

The tricky moral question continues to be debated by lawmakers, ethicists and lawyers, but for Mercedes’s Manager of Driver Assistance Systems, Active Safety and Ratings, the answer couldn’t be clearer.
 

PUGPROUD - 10/11/2016 2:28:02 PM

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Duh! Of course. What other answer could there be. Let me think..."Buy an autonomous driven Mercedes to save pedestrians but kill you and your loved ones in our car!" Now that would be a great marketing tag line and
a new high for honesty in advertising.

Car4life1 - 10/11/2016 5:18:06 PM

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BREAKING NEEEEEEWS Mercedes Benz partners with Tempur-Pedic so the next Mercedes you get hit by is the best nap you ever had!

TheSteve - 10/11/2016 2:31:08 PM

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Isn't that what most people in manually operated vehicles would also do?

vdiv - 10/11/2016 5:22:43 PM

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Yeah, but with this MB is risking to become complicit in vehicular homicides.

I say forget Assimov's laws, the car should protect itself first, call the MB lawyers first instead of emergency response ;)